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|  | [John Sanei] In the past five years the number of trends websites and trend experts have doubled if not tripled. The ability to understand the future is the promise, but the more one looks at trend websites, reports, talks, videos, podcasts and a multitude of other information on trends, the more confusing it starts to look to business owners... read
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Louise Marsland One of South Africa's most awarded and respected creative talents, Bridget Johnson, was appointed as a creative partner at M&C Saatchi Abel Jhb, at the end of last year... Read | Now celebrating its 25th anniversary year, integrated PR and strategic communications agency marcusbrewster has appointed Andre Fourie as managing director... Read | Leigh Andrews There's no doubt this is the year of the podcast. It's been dubbed one of the top trends for 2016. With its forward-thinking, 'do it all' attitude, little wonder that Primedia has hopped on the bandwagon... Read |
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| | |  | Emma Odendaal Remember when social media was the domain of the team renegade or, better yet, the intern? Social strategies are a critical part of overall marketing strategies, often leading the charge in having a direct effect on the bottom line... read | |  | Jacques du Preez Digitisation, new collaborative research and consolidation in the industry, puts OOH media in a very exciting place in South Africa and in Africa... read | |  | Sizakele Marutlulle Creativity is critical to business, as are ideas that generate substance and marketing campaigns that don't play on stereotyping... read | |  | Graham Deneys First of all - 2016 aside - I'm already seeing quite a different approach to the definition and the role of a media agency in the actual agency mix when it comes to overall business outcomes for clients... read | | |
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 | The Independent Agency Search & Selection Company (IAS) has partnered with Spanish based SCOPEN Africa to provide in-depth and comprehensive research amongst South African marketers into client-agency relationships... read | |  | Eugene Yiga Every year, industry experts tout their top trends. What's the best way to keep up with it all? Since you can only waste so many hours in a day, the best approach is to learn the lessons that last... read | |
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 | Here's how Publicis Africa Group is set to further change the game with its acquisition of Popimedia... read | |  | Preethi Vagadia Data is becoming increasingly important to how we perceive the world. How we utilise it, to interpret things that matter, depends on the kind of technology... read | |  | Issued by The SpaceStation The latest poll of over 5,000 respondents surveyed across the IAB SA publisher network has given the industry a deep level of understanding of the premium mobile audience... read | |
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 | Mike dos Santos People in the industry often view the strategist and the creative as different animals. However, spend enough time with both of these individuals and you will come to realise that there are actually more traits that they have in common... read | |  | Rebecca Cronje Why a good reputation and brand can lead to more sales... read | | |
 | Charles Bennett, Issued by The Focus Group A number of months ago I had the opportunity to review customer service at Disney and found pretty consistently that the top performers were those who had a genuine service obsession... read | | |
 | Issued by Sizmek Sizmek, the open ad management company for omni-channel campaigns, has been accredited by the Media Rating Council for its measurement of served ad impressions and clicks on mobile web and mobile apps... read | | |
 | Phindiwe Nkosi Whether you are doing it full-time or want to supplement your income, freelancing can offer unlimited earning opportunities... read | | |
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 | Jose Dos Santos MTN and Vodacom have declared war on consumer interests. The infamous duopoly wants to limit how we use internet services like WhatsApp... read | |
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 | Rémy Martin has a launched new global brand website and engagement platform to bring the one life/live them philosophy to a global audience. read | |
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 | Issued by PRISA The newly launched online entry system for the PRISM Awards is one of the key topics on the agenda for next week's Prepping for PRISM Awards workshop on how to submit an award-winning entry... read | | |
 | The Eastern Cape's biggest community radio station might find itself off air before the end of the week after several of its assets were attached by the sheriff of the high court. read | | |
 | Issued by Student Brands Saleboat is a multi-platform sales management application which gives more power and control to sales reps and managers... read | | |
 | SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter feeds went down for hours on Tuesday in many part of the world in one of the worst outages in the 10-year history of the messaging platform.... read | |  | Kaspersky Lab has found that internationally, almost a third (30%) of social network users share their posts, check-ins and other personal info with everybody who is online - not just their friends... read | |
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 | CNN will be in Cape Town earlier than usual this year in order to cover history in the making... read | | | | | | More International | |
|  | Splash PR is looking for an exceptional PR practitioner or journalist who can conjure up tactical media lists, pinpoint news angles, craft newsworthy editorials and compile social media content plans. Read more >> |
 | Dash Of Lime seeks a senior advertising executive to grow the business in the Cape region. The role requires a digital media sales professional with extensive agency account management experience. Read more >> |
SA Council for the Architectural Profession (SACAP) urgently seeks to employ a suitably qualified person to work in the stakeholder relations (SR) unit temporarily until the position becomes permanent. Read more >>
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